A Strike like No Other Strike

By Richard A., Jr. Brisbin

Subjects: Law and legislation, Pittston Coal Company, Trials, litigation, Coal mining, West virginia, history, United states, history, 20th century, Strikes and lockouts, coal mining, Political questions and judicial power, Strikes and lockouts, History

Description: "In A Strike Like No Other Strike: Law and Resistance during the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989-1990, Richard Brisbin offers a compelling study of the exercise of political power. In considering the legal significance of the strike, Brisbin asks the larger question of whether even extreme transgression or resistance can fracture the "imagined coherence of the law." He shows how each party in the strike invoked the law to justify its actions while attacking those of the other side as unlawful. In the end, both sides lost; although the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ruled in favor of the union, most of the strikers faced elimination of their jobs and an ongoing struggle for pensions and health benefits."--BOOK JACKET.